Teams and leadership
Team Topologies, fast flow and leading people through change.
22 posts, newest first. Every subject
2025
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The Triangle of Tension Explained: How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
When deadlines feel impossible and demands don't add up, you're in the Triangle of Tension. Stories and tools for balancing wants, needs and feasibility.
Armakuni. A four-minute read.
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The Second Edition of Team Topologies: Why People and Purpose Matter More Than Ever
Team Topologies has a second edition, six years on. Why its message about people and purpose matters even more now.
Faye Benfield. A five-minute read.
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Find the Tension Behind the Frustration: A Toolkit for Product & Tech Leaders
A 50-minute live online session for product and tech leaders, on 25 September 2025, about the Triangle of Tension: stakeholder wants, user needs and what's actually feasible.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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DevOps Was Never Meant to Be a Team
DevOps started as a way to end the big-bang release and the silos behind it, and it was never meant to become a job title. What shared responsibility for delivery looks like in practice.
Andrea Laforgia. A ten-minute read.
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Caring Just Enough: A Leadership Quality for Balance and Sustainability
What a six-month leadership course taught one of our leads about caring just enough: enough empathy to lead well, and enough distance to make hard calls and look after yourself.
Faye Benfield. A six-minute read.
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Navigating the Triangle of Tension: A Human Guide for Product & Tech Leaders
The Triangle of Tension is the pull between what stakeholders want, what users need and what's feasible. How product teams can read it and come to agreement.
Faye Benfield. A five-minute read.
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The Triangle of Tension: Reflections from Our Exclusive Panel Discussion
Notes from our panel in London's Sea Containers building, where product and engineering leaders talked through the Triangle of Tension.
Armakuni. A six-minute read.
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Study of Enterprise Agility Meetup
A Study of Enterprise Agility meetup on the productivity paradox, on 3 July at 6:30 pm.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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What It Really Means to Be Product-Led: Reflections from Our Exclusive Roundtable
What product leaders told each other at our roundtable with Team Topologies about strategic alignment, leading as a platform and measuring the right things.
Event recap. Armakuni. A five-minute read.
2024
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Fast Flow 2024: A Recap of Key Insights and Lessons Learned
What we took away from Fast Flow 2024 in London, the Team Topologies conference we helped found.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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Transforming Workshops with "Training from the Back of the Room": A New Approach to Engaging Learning
Energy dropped in one session of our two-day React TDD workshop. How Training from the Back of the Room changed the way we run it.
Armakuni. A three-minute read.
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Coaching for Consulting Success
What coaching is, why it belongs in a consultant's toolbox, and how it applies to software consulting.
Armakuni. A nine-minute read.
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How to motivate people to adapt to change
A change only works if the team is motivated to adapt to it. How regulatory fit theory and expectancy-value theory help, and how to match your approach to the team.
Armakuni. A three-minute read.
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How to motivate people to adapt to change - Part 2
Part two puts regulatory fit theory and expectancy-value theory to work, with examples of motivating a team through an organizational change.
Armakuni. A three-minute read.
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Beginning Team Topologies
The problems teams run into when they first adopt Team Topologies, with practical advice from people who have been through it.
Armakuni. A seven-minute read.
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Team Topologies Conference: Practical Solutions for Cognitive Load
A Fast Flow Conference talk for teams asked to do more with the same people: how to spot cognitive overload and handle it.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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Everyone is missing the point of teams
Words drift in our industry until DevOps means Ops and Agile means Waterfall, and "team" has drifted too. What the word really means, and why it matters for building cross-functional teams.
Armakuni. A six-minute read.
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Fast Flow Conference: Insights and Innovations from the World of Team Topologies
A recap of Fast Flow Conference, on improving teamwork and flow in software delivery with the ideas from Team Topologies.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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Platform as a Product Meetup: Product Mindset and Platform Success
At the Platform as a Product Meetup in London, Zenon Hannick and Faye Benfield talked about running a platform as a product, with examples from our clients.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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What's an Agile standup?
The history and theory of the standup across Agile frameworks over twenty to thirty years, where they agree and where their intent differs, with tips for a better one.
Armakuni. A 28-minute read.
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Why organisations misunderstand things
McKinsey's article on measuring developer productivity set off a debate. Why organizations misread ideas like Agile when they miss the values and assumptions underneath.
Armakuni. A four-minute read.
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Armakuni is excited to be a founding organiser and sponsor of the Fast Flow Conf, a Team Topologies Conference in London, UK
We are a founding organiser and sponsor of Fast Flow Conf in London, the first public conference on Team Topologies.
Event recap. Armakuni. A two-minute read.
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